Posted on 08/16/2024 3:56:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fascinating. Thanks.
And on a different note of Alexander the Great, there’s his diary of his campaign found in an attic.
“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)
New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Journal of an Asiatic Expedition
Vol. IV No. II; Feb 1793; p.98; by R
Buddha is dead, Jesus is risen..
I knew this dude, he was crazy. But I loved him:
Billy Joe Shaver
https://youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4?si=sW7wu9RZhrraQURz
Oops, that was pat. I love her.
Billy Joe:https://youtu.be/psvV10pohMw?si=xad4R94oAkQsiBrg
I was there. Ed and I were pals.
There are far more differences than similarities.
I remember reading something about this decades ago in LIFE magazine. They showed a small statue of Buddha that resembled Alexander the Great.
God used Alexander the Queer for Christianity. Take it or leave it.
We now know there were Buddhists in Anatolia during the Byzantine era and before and there were Buddhists scattered about in central Asia and points west back to 300 BC or so. Recent discoveries in Egypt are Buddhist statuettes from the time of Alexander and the early Ptolomeys
"Did Buddhism Influence Greek Stoicism?"
It sure did, thanks to Ashoka Maharaja, one of the ancestral sovereigns of the Kingdom of Shambhala,the others being China's Yung Lo,Japan's Shotoku Taishi, and Tibet's Gesar of Ling. Ashoka prosecuted horrible wars, which resulted in thousands of deaths and horrible blood baths.He was so abhorred by thehuman suffering that he renounced war and created an empire based upon enlightened principles.
These principles were inscribed on stone columns set up across India.
One of Ashoka's Columns:
Ashoka Maharaja:
“Buddha is dead...”
I’m just pining for the fjords.
“I’m just pining for the fjords”
Me too
Buddha is still deas
Very interesting read, thanks.
Thanks nickcarraway.
Description of a crystal or glass pavilion, murals in stucco, wall painting and life-like sculpture in Manimekalai are proof of Mediterranean influence in India. This is confirmed by literary allusion to numerous Greeks in India identified as Yavana from Yavanapura or Alexandria. The Greek connection apparently included Pompeii, where an ivory statuette in early Buddhist style was recovered from a merchant's house on the "via dell' Abbondanza". [Arputhrani Sengupta, Associate Professor, Dept. of History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India, "Narrative in Tamil Epic (Second Century AD): Transmission of Myth"](fig.8) Goddess Manimekala-Isis-Aphrodite in Sanchi style, Pompeii, 1 st century AD Arputhrani Sengupta (Associate Professor, Dept. of History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India) |
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